IN HER autobiography, Medium Eileen Garrett recalled
her first trance state, which occurred in London during 1926 as she was
sitting with a group of women during a table-tilting seance. She drifted off
into a 'sleep,' and upon awakening was told by the others that she began to
speak of seeing the dead relatives of those at the table. She was informed
that an entity calling himself 'Uvani' claimed to be her control and that
she would be working in the capacity of Trance Medium for a number of years.

As later observed by psychical researcher Hereward
Carrington, Garrett would pass into a deep trance and, after a short wait,
Uvani would begin speaking through her mouth, addressing the sitter and
inviting questions. Generally, after a brief conversation with the sitter,
Uvani would find or attempt to find deceased loved ones. Uvani would
frequently allow the deceased entities to speak directly through Garrett
(rather than relaying their words as other controls often do). At the
conclusion of the seance, Uvani would again take over her organism, give a
few parting words and say a short closing prayer. A secondary control,
calling himself 'Abdul Latif,' would also manifest, primarily for healing
purposes.

Uvani claimed to be the surviving Spirit one Yasuf
ben Hafik ben Ali, an Arab who had lived in Basrah during the early 1800s,
dying at the age of 48 in a battle with the Turks. He said he had been a
member of a noble merchant family.

Carrington conducted many tests with Garrett,
attempting to determine if Uvani was a secondary personality arising out of
Garrett’s subconscious. He noted that Garrett was not spiritualistically
inclined and was 'on the fence' as to whether Uvani was who he claimed to
be.

'I have never been able wholly to accept them as the
spiritual dwellers on the threshold, which they seem to believe they are,'
Garrett wrote of her controls. 'I rather leaned away from accepting them as
such, a fact which is known to them and troubles them not at all.'

Garrett went on to say that Uvani is nearly always
detached, 'the Doorkeeper cloaked in the personality of the Guardian,' while
Abdul Latif was more universally oriented to outer events and therefore more
positive in his pronouncements and judgments.

Carrington had a number of personality and
psychological tests administered to Garrett and Uvani, believing that if
Uvani were a fragmented personality of Garrett’s subconscious the tests
would pretty much be the same. As it turned out, they were quite different.
For example, Garrett scored in only the 21st percentile on a measure of
neurotic tendency, while Uvani scored in the 87th percentile. On a test
designed to measure introversion-extraversion, Garrett scored 24, indicating
a fair amount of extravertive tendency, while Uvani scored 80, very much on
the introversion side.

In a test giving an indication of the number of
schizoid traits an individual possesses, Garrett had a normal 15 traits, but
Uvani had 36, a score which was far beyond normal and psychotic individuals,
suggesting a tendency to daydream and withdraw from 'reality.' In a test
asking them to list their four best and four worst traits, Garrett listed 'generous, honest, forgiving, and conscientious' as her best traits. Uvani
gave 'honesty, physique, vigor, and swordsmanship' as his best. Garrett
listed 'indifferent, too sensitive, unsocial, and over-critical' as her
worst traits, while Uvani gave 'desire to wander away from responsibility,
desire for bloodshed, desire to rule his household, and inability to forgive
and forget easily' as his worst.

Carrington also tested Abdul Latif and deceased
entities who were allowed to take over Garrett’s body and communicate.

“The conclusion to which we seem driven, therefore,”
Carrington summed it up, '…is that ‘Uvani,’ and especially the other alleged
entities, represent some sort of independent entities, with no strong
emotional or memory connections with the normal Mrs. Garrett, or with any
get-atable portion of her subconscious.”

As might be expected, other researchers took issue
with Carrington’s finding. Carrington pointed out to them that even if Uvani
is a secondary personality, it does not explain how others, known to have
existed as humans, are able to do the same thing as Uvani, nor does it
explain how they obtain information clearly outside the scope of Garrett’s
knowledge and experience.

Carrington interviewed Uvani as to his nature and
methods. Uvani told him that he had always been in close contact with
Garrett during the uncharted years of her life. He said that the moment he
would see the wanderings of her underconsciousness, he would be drawn to
her.

'As the time draws near, I am able to impress upon
the underconsciousness not only my presence, but others, and I control that
underconsciousness,' Uvani told Carrington. 'Of the conscious mind I have no
control at all, nor would I find it right.'

Uvani further told Carrington that Garrett’s
conscious mind 'is permitted to go into the Cosmos, to renew itself, where
it receives strength and is purified,' just as in the sleep state for
everyone, during the time he and others are using her organism.

When Carrington asked how Uvani influences her brain
and body, Uvani responded that he does not influence either. 'I use a
‘figment’ - the fabric of the soul - which is stimulated by my thoughts;
this stimulates the fabric and produces automatic expression,' he explained,
adding that it took him many years (of earth time) to learn to subdue the
conscious mind.

Asked how he knew when Garrett was ready for him to
come, Uvani said he gets a 'telegraphed' impression that the 'Instrument' is
ready, explaining that the moment that the conscious mind becomes very low,
the soul-body becomes more vibrant and that serves as a 'telegram' for him
to operate.

As for language, Uvani said he does not speak
English. He simply impresses his thoughts upon that “figment” with which he
works and his thoughts are converted to English automatically.

Eileen J. Garrett (March 17, 1893 – September 15,
1970) was an Irish medium and parapsychologist, founder of the
Parapsychology Foundation in New York City, and a leading figure in the
scientific study of paranormal phenomena during the mid-20th century.
Contents Ireland She was born in County Meath, Ireland. Shortly after her
birth, her parents, Anthony and Anna, as well as an uncle (Charles)
committed suicide. She was then adopted by an aunt and uncle who ostracized
her for her parents' deaths and for the psychic abilities she exhibited from
an early age.[1] In 1919, Garrett met the writer and social activist Edward
Carpenter who was a profound influence on her life, convincing her that she
should share and study her gifts. Carpenter told her that she had been born
to a state of "cosmic consciousness" that others would spend their lives
searching for in vain. It was at this point in her life that she began to
see her gifts not as a series of pathological hallucinations but rather as
true premonitions. She realized that she was living two lives, as two women:
the normal "average Irish woman" as she would later call herself, and the
"medium," whom she later described as "being outside myself, a truly
spiritual being."[2] It was around this time when she became entranced by a
spirit, an fourteenth-century Arab soldier called Uvani who expressed his
interest in helping her to develop her abilities. Uvani would remain at her
side as her friend, companion and protector for the rest of her life and was
in primary control of her mediumship. Garrett had three other trance
spirits. Abdul Latif, a seventeenth-century Persian physician, dealt
primarily with healing and would often cause her to speak in unknown
dialects. The other two spirits, Tahotah and Ramah, very seldom contacted
her and spoke only on spiritual matters. They claimed no earthy
incarnations; however, several other mediums thought that they had a Native
American connection.[3] Around the time of Uvani's appearance, Garrett began
receiving messages from the dead daughter of a soldier whom she had met
during the war and told him about them. Her visions and messages were so
accurate that he immediately reported to all of his friends in the local
spiritualist movement that he had "met a medium with the truest of gifts."
Shortly thereafter, she began holding regular trance sessions during which
she would experience seeing the dead relatives and friends of those present.
These trances would leave her physically drained and she would often vomit
in an adjacent room before returning to tell her clients of her visions. Her
friend, the writer Edward Carpenter, forbid her from returning to the group
of local spiritualists, citing the danger to her mental, physical and
emotional health. Over the following years, she consulted a number of
hypnotists and the British College of Psychic Science where she met the
psychic researcher James Hewat McKenzie. He and a number of more advanced
mediums impressed upon her that she should develop her abilities further.
Shortly after McKenzie's death in 1929, she severed her ties to the college
but took with her an advanced understanding of her abilities. America In
1931, she was invited to America by the American Society for Psychical
Research (ASPR) to participate in a series of experiments under the
direction of Hereward Carrington. During that period she was studied at Duke
University where she was brought into a circle of mediums that had been
arranged by William McDougall. He was impressed and said of her that she was
"one of the finest mediums I have ever met." In 1939, she was considering
ending her participation in experiments when McDougall convinced her to
assist Nandor Fodor in the investigation of The Ash Manor Ghost. She was in
southern France visiting friends and doing readings for clients of William
McDougall in 1940 when Germany once again invaded France. She stayed there
in relative obscurity until 1941 when she was allowed to travel to Portugal
where she found passage on a refugee boat to the United States. She remained
there and became an American citizen in 1947. Garrett pursued a lifelong
study of her own in the United States in the field of parapsychology,
identifying "subspecies" of ghosts and spirits. She worked with the
publishing company H.S. Stuttman & Co. and collaborated on several books on
the subject of ghosts. She established a moderately successfully publishing
house of her own, the Creative Age Press in New York City, and in 1943 she
founded a less-than-successful magazine called Tomorrow magazine employing
Mercedes de Acosta as associate editor. It specialized in very accurate
horoscopes and the topics of parapsychology. In 1951 Garrett founded the
Parapsychology Foundation using her own money as well as a number of federal
grants and international conference fundraisers. She encouraged others with
extrasensory gifts to develop them into mediumship and to pursue paranormal
sciences and made strides in bringing real science into the field.[4] In the
1960s, Garrett worked with psychologist Lawrence LeShan in his studies of
alternate realities, describing the "clairvoyant realities" in a number of
his papers and books. She continued to write, participate in studies and
research projects, and identify ghosts and demonic spirits until her death
on September 15, 1970 in Nice, France where she was investigating the
appearance of a series of ghostly apparitions. This particular investigation
left her exhausted and she told her friend Uvani that she worried the
apparitions were the direct cause of her period of declining health.[5][6]
In addition to her numerous contributions to the works of others and her
work to advance the science of parapsychology, Garrett left a total of seven
nonfiction books of her own, the Parapsychology Foundation which operates to
this day, eleven popular short manuals on the expulsion of demons and
spirits, and a number of novels under the pen name Jean Lyttle.

From Wilipeadia

Eileen J. Garrett is, perhaps, the most respected
medium of the twentieth century. Her contributions to the investigation and
understanding of mediumship and allied phenomena remain immeasurable. As a
sensitive, she was very much aware of people's moods and feelings. As a
psychic researcher, she recognized the need for a scientific and an
open-minded investigation of paranormal phenomena. As an author, lecturer,
and publisher, she sought to share her ideas and experiences with the
public. As an administrator, she had a keen mind and a sense of perception
for the more mundane aspects of life. Any one of these undertakings would
certainly be a career, in itself, but there was something quite remarkable
about this woman which allowed her to pursue all four with amazing zest,
integrity, and effectiveness. Eileen Garrett was born in 1893, in Beauparc,
County Meath, Ireland. From the beginning, her life was riddled with
tragedy. Her parents both committed suicide shortly after her birth; she
was, then, adopted by an aunt and uncle. In her autobiography, she writes:
"Once I heard my aunt refer to them as 'poor Anthony and Anna' in a tone
that held both pity and disapproval, and a sympathy for them stirred within
me . . . It was explained to me later that Anna and Anthony were my dead
parents. I was glad then that I had given their names to many living things
that I had cherished.' Psychic experiences were a part of Eileen Garrett's
life from the moment she saw an infant for the first time. She sensed and
saw around people, animals and, even plants, various forms of light and
energy which she initially termed 'surrounds'. She said that she had
imaginary playmates, whom she called 'the children'. She claims that their
appearance was a very normal part of her life and that she 'did not have to
go to them in any particular place, or make any adjustments' in order to see
them. One day, while quite young, she saw her favorite aunt, who lived about
twenty miles away, walking up the path carrying a baby. As the aunt
approached, she said to young Eileen, 'I am going away now and I must take
the baby with me.' Eileen quickly ran into the house to relate this to her
adoptive aunt, who immediately punished her for making up stories. The
following day she learned that her aunt Leone had died in childbirth, along
with the baby. This unfortunate introduction to death had its impact upon
young Eileen. She had many questions concerning birth and death, none of
which anyone, least of all her aunt, cared to discuss with her. As a means
of protest, and in response to some undeserved punishment, she drowned some
ducklings of which her aunt was very proud. She recalls, 'The little dead
bodies were quiet, but a strange movement was occurring all about them. A
gray, smoke-like substance rose up from each small form. This nebulous,
fluid stuff wove and curled as it rose in winding spiral curves, and I saw
it take new shape as it moved out and away from the quiet forms.' Thus she
became aware, at a young age, that there was more to life than the physical
form, and that this 'more' separated itself from the body, at the time of
death. Illness plagued Eileen Garrett's younger years. Tuberculosis and
other respiratory conditions flared up frequently, and, at age fifteen, she
left Ireland for the milder climate of England. She stayed in England with
relatives and, very soon thereafter, was courted by an older gentleman named
Clive, whom she married within a few months. She gave birth to three sons,
all of whom died at very early ages. The eldest and second-born sons both
died of meningitis within weeks of each other. The third died a few hours
after birth. Eventually, she gave birth to her daughter, Eileen. Once again
her health deteriorated, and, by the time she recovered, her marriage had
ended in divorce. During World War I, she opened a hostel for convalescent
soldiers. It was during this period that she met and married her second
husband, a young officer who was immediately called to the front. She had a
premonition that this marriage would be short-lived. In her memoirs she
wrote: "I knew that my young husband was . . . suffering. In order to find
release from the depression . . . I gathered several friends together and
went out to dine. That evening . . . I had a vision of my husband, dying.'
Two days later, he was listed as missing in action, and, shortly thereafter,
he was stated as having been killed in Ypres. Again she fell ill, and, while
recuperating, she became friendly with a young man whom she eventually
married, one month before Armistice. She readily admits, 'I drifted into my
third marriage without any thought of its being permanent.' It was at about
this time that Mrs. Garrett began investigating psychic matters. Despite all
this unhappiness and tragedy, she was obviously being prepared for her major
role in life: that of a sensitive. One day, during a table rapping session,
she became drowsy and started falling asleep. When she awakened, she
discovered that dead relatives of others in the room had communicated
through her. In spite of her husband's warnings never to attend such
meetings again, she sought the advice of one Mr. Huhnli who took it upon
himself to guide Eileen in her understanding of what was happening to her.
At one such meeting, she was entranced by an Arab soldier called Uvani who
expressed his interest in helping prove survival. Mrs. Garrett's mediumship
had finally come to the surface, but fear, ill health, and the break-up of
her marriage delayed its development. Despite this delay, she eventually
came to meet J. Hewat McKenzie, founder of the British College of Psychic
Science. It was under his careful guidance, at the College, that her
mediumship blossomed. Mr. McKenzie and his wife, Barbara, were keenly aware
of the need for mediumship to expand well beyond that of messages from the
Spirits. They recognized that mediumship could provide a tool whereby the
investigator could delve into the various dimensions and levels of
perception and consciousness. Mr. McKenzie was probably the most powerful
influence upon Eileen Garrett, as well as her attitudes concerning the
process of communication. She continued studying and developing her
mediumship at the College until Hewat McKenzie's death in 1929. Marriage was
once again in the offing, and, once again, after a premonition, it ended in
tragedy. Both she and her fiancé became ill on the same day. He died of
pneumonia, and she barely survived a mastoid operation. Confused about what
to do, convinced that her mediumship resulted from nothing more than a split
personality, and quite fed up with the message game, she decided to come to
the United States and seek help from the scientific community. In the United
States, she was able to make some astounding connections with many noted
scientists and parapsychologists. She subjected herself to intense
physiological and psychological experimentation, hoping that such testing
might shed some light upon the processes of mediumship and psychism. She
traveled to and from the States, searching, studying, and experimenting.
When the Second World War broke out in Europe, she was in France working
with children and refugees. She remained there until the end of 1940, when
in a 'wholly spontaneous and of external origin' flash she knew she should
leave and seek other work. Quite miraculously, she arrived at Lisbon and
found passage on a refugee boat to New York. Her life now took a definitive
course. Within a few months of her arrival in New York, she started
Tomorrow, a monthly magazine of literary and public affairs. She also
started the publishing firm, Creative Age Press. Eileen Garrett's greatest
achievement was the founding of the Parapsychology Foundation, in 1951. Her
honesty and acumen for business affairs helped make this one of today's most
respected foundations of its type. Over the years, the Parapsychology
Foundation has published several fine journals, newsletters, and reports,
many under the presidency of Mrs. Garrett herself. In the autumn of 1952,
Tomorrow was re-instituted as a quarterly journal for the study of psychic
science. In January, 1955, the Foundation began publishing its bimonthly
newsletter, followed, in 1958, by a series of Parapsychological Monographs,
and, in 1959, by the very prestigious International Journal of
Parapsychology. In March, 1970, the Foundation began publishing the
Parapsychology Review, a bimonthly review of articles, news, and books.
Unfortunately, the Parapsychology Review suspended publication a few years
ago. The Parapsychology Foundation has hosted twenty-eight Annual
International Conferences on parapsychology and allied sciences. Eileen
Garrett had four trance communicators. Uvani, a fourteenth century Arab
soldier, was the control of the mediumship. Abdul Latif, a seventeenth
century Persian physician, dealt primarily with healing. Speaking very
seldom and on more philosophic and spiritual matters, were Tahotah and
Ramah. These two claimed no earthy incarnations. One of Eileen Garrett's
more memorable communications, as a medium, was the case of the R101.

Here
is what Nandor Fodor says about this in his Encyclopedia of Psychic Science:
'In a sitting at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research on October 7,
1930, two days after the explosion of the R101, Flight Lieutenant H. C.
Irwin, Captain of the airship, suddenly entranced Mrs. Garrett, announced
his presence and gave the listeners a highly technical account of how the
airship crashed. The narrative was taken down in shorthand and a copy was
submitted to the Air Ministry. According to the opinion of experts, a number
of observations in the message tallied in every detail with what was
afterwards found in the course of the official inquiry. E. F. Spanner, the
well-known naval architect and marine engineer, came to exactly the same
conclusions in his book, The Tragedy of the R101.'

Despite the wealth of
information and evidence of survival which came through Eileen Garrett, she
was never quite convinced that her mediumship stemmed from a separate
source; an attitude which, in our opinion, made her mediumship so profoundly
wonderful. She was always searching for more information concerning the
secrets behind the consciousness of the mind and its relationship to the
physical organism. She was a prolific writer and the author of: Adventures
in the Supernormal; Telepathy; Awareness; The Sense and Nonsense of
Prophecy; Life is the Healer; and Many Voices.

In the preface to her
autobiography, she wrote: 'I have a gift, a capacity - a delusion, if you
will - which is called 'psychic'. I do not care what it may be called, for
living with and utilizing this psychic capacity long ago inured me to a
variety of epithets - ranging from expressions almost of reverence, through
doubt and pity, to open vituperation. In short, I have been called many
things, from a charlatan to a miracle woman. I am, at least, neither of
these.' This statement best sums up Mrs. Garrett's point of view concerning
her work. On September 15, 1970, Eileen J. Garrett passed to Spirit after
one final and very painful struggle with bone cancer. The First Spiritual
Temple is very proud to have hosted Mrs. Garrett on the following dates, for
public lectures and private sittings: December 2, 1955; May 2, 1956;
November 13, 1957; and May 13, 1959. Furthermore, whenever Mrs. Garrett was
in Boston, she would stop in at the Temple to bid her greetings. We remember
her as a fine medium, an astute researcher, a productive writer, and a
hard-working businesswoman.